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------- Additional comments from [email protected] Thu Sep 23 08:34:45 +0000 2010 ------- debugged a little bit into this ... The PDF importer extension comes with configuration for document filters, which is intended to allow a user to open PDF documents in Writer, Impress or Draw. Unfortunately, for all three filters, the chosen UI name is "PDF - Portable Document Format". However, filter UI names must be unique, so the internal file picker refuses to add different filters with the same UI name. There are some consequences from this bug: First, when using the internal file picker (which is still default on some platforms), the complete groups with *all* filters for Impress and Draw are *not* available in the "File type" list. This is because the PDF import filter is part of the respective group, and the complete group is rejected because of the one invalid entry. The fact that nobody ever noticed that lets me assume that the filter grouping feature is somewhat ... nonsensical. Second, the intention behind those 3 different filters - allowing the user to specify which application to open the PDF document with - does not work at all: Even in the system file picker, there is only one entry "PDF - Portable Document Format". Choosing it means that the document is opened in Draw, the user does not have any chance to force it to be opened in Impress or Writer. While it is interesting that nobody ever noticed those bugs (which says a lot about the importance of the respective features, IMO), it is also interesting how investigating an innocent assertion could have fixed them much earlier ... Did I mention that it sucks that nobody cares for assertions anymore? --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
